Influence of Tethered Ions on Electric Polarization and Electrorheological Property of Polymerized Ionic Liquids [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 Polymerized ionic liquids (PILs) show potential to be used as new water-free polyelectrolyte-based electrorheological (ER) material. To direct ER material design at the molecular level, unveiling structure-property relationships is essential. While a few
Fang He +4 more
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Surfactant-Switched Positive/Negative Electrorheological Effect in Tungsten Oxide Suspensions [PDF]
Molecules, 2019 The electrorheological (ER) effect was experimentally observed in dielectric suspensions containing tungsten oxide (WO3) modified with surfactant molecules (sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) and dodecylamine (DDA)) in electric fields up to several kilovolts ...
Alexander V. Agafonov +7 more
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Electric-Field-Induced Modulation of Structure and Rheology in MBBA-Based Liquid Crystal Physical Gels [PDF]
GelsLiquid crystal physical gels (LCPGs) combine the anisotropic properties of liquid crystals with the structural stability of soft solids. In this work, MBBA-based LCPGs were prepared using chiral oxalamide gelators 1,6-bis((O-leucylmethanol)-N-yloxalamido)
André Cruz +3 more
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Enhanced and Tunable Electrorheological Capability using Surface Initiated Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Modification with Simultaneous Reduction of the Graphene Oxide by Silyl-Based Polymer Grafting [PDF]
Nanomaterials, 2019 In this study, a verified process of the "grafting from" approach using surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization was applied for the modification of a graphene oxide (GO) surface.
Erika Kutalkova +5 more
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Electrorheology of nanofiber suspensions [PDF]
Nanoscale Research Letters, 2011 Electrorheological (ER) fluid, which can be transformed rapidly from a fluid-like state to a solid-like state under an external electric field, is considered to be one of the most important smart fluids.
Yin Jianbo, Zhao Xiaopeng
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Electroresponsive Polymer–Inorganic Semiconducting Composite (MCTP–Fe3O4) Particles and Their Electrorheology [PDF]
ACS Omega, 2018 Yu Zhen Dong +4 more
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Frontiers in Materials, 2021 Electrorheological (ER) fluids are a type of smart material with adjustable rheological properties. Generally, the high yield stress (>100 kPa) requires high electric field strength (>4 kV/mm).
Yuchuan Cheng +11 more
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IET Nanodielectrics, 2021 Graphene has attracted scientific interest as a substrate or additive for developing high‐performance stimuli‐responsive materials. Research on graphene‐based polymer dielectric composites has shown an enhanced electroresponsive electrorheological (ER ...
Jinhua Yuan +4 more
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Soft pneumatic gripper integrated with multi‐configuration and variable‐stiffness functionality
Cognitive Computation and Systems, 2021 Soft grippers are compliant and self‐adaptive, and can be highly compatible with the surrounding environment in grasping tasks. Currently, most soft pneumatic grippers are developed with a single grasping configuration, which leads to poor universality ...
Zean Yuan, Li Wu, Xiangjian Xu, Rui Chen
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Electrorheological polishing performance of cerium-doped titanium dioxide particles
Frontiers in Materials, 2022 Electrorheological (ER) polishing as a new type of polishing technique has flexibility and controllability. However, ER polishing cannot be widely used in actual processing because the present ER polishing fluid is usually prepared by simple mixing ...
Xufeng Hu +7 more
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